Played on Linux (Xubuntu)

I got Black Desert during a free weekend. I like the concept of MMORPGs but I find that they usually get very repetitive and boring after a few hours. The banner on the Black Desert store page showed an old west style gunslinger kind of character which is a little different when it comes to fantasy RPGs so I decided to give it a try.

At first it seemed like just another MMO but once I got past the first few tutorial quests it really turned into a great game.

There's so much stuff to do that it's a little overwhelming at first. There are thousands of quests and the main story quests are all nicely voice acted and feature animated cutscenes rendered in real time. You can fight bosses, gather resources, hire workers, sail the seas, farm, fish, play mini games and more.

The world is just big enough to make the teleportation system worth using without being unnecessarily huge. The teleportation system is pretty unique and has it's own story quest.

Everything looks great, worlds and towns are very well assembled and everything runs smoothly on my system. The combat, attacks and animations are well done and fun to watch. Boss enemies are huge and fighting them is fun and requires a bit of speed and agility. Villages and towns are full of random characters going about their daily business, walking, talking and carrying supplies around. It's a very lively virtual world.

I particularly like the path finding system. Your character can auto travel the roads from one end of the map to another. Your character might get stuck within the first couple seconds of auto travel but once it gets going it rarely gets stuck.

The UI might be a little confusing at first, there are more buttons and switches than a NASA spacecraft but you end up using most of the features at some point.

Black Desert is definitely worth it's regular price and is a must have when they periodically give it away for free.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☑ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Do not play this game. It is also known as Cron Desert Online.
Unless you have a really fat wallet.